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Louis Vuitton x Kari Voutilainen LVKV-02 GMR 6: A Five-Piece Travel Watch

The five-piece Louis Vuitton x Kari Voutilainen LVKV-02 GMR 6 pairs an Escale-inspired tantalum case and travel trunk with a hand-built GMT movement and painstaking dial work.

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The Louis Vuitton x Kari Voutilainen LVKV-02 GMR 6 is a five-piece limited edition that pairs an Escale-inspired tantalum case and Louis Vuitton travel trunk with a hand-built, hand-finished movement and intricately decorated dial from Kari Voutilainen’s workshop. Its standout details are the 24-hour home-time display, the 28-color painted hour circle and a specification discrepancy: Louis Vuitton lists two different case thicknesses.

What is the LVKV-02 GMR 6?

Louis Vuitton describes the LVKV-02 GMR 6 as a collaboration between master watchmaker Kari Voutilainen and La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton. The edition comprises five individually numbered watches, a figure also stated on Voutilainen’s collaboration page. Louis Vuitton’s product story and Voutilainen’s collaboration page document the makers’ respective roles.

The design connects Louis Vuitton’s Escale travel-watch language with Voutilainen’s movement and decorative expertise. It is not simply a branded case around an outside calibre: Louis Vuitton identifies the movement as made, finished and assembled at the Voutilainen workshop, while the watch’s case and presentation evoke the house’s travel objects.

Case, dimensions and water resistance

The Escale-inspired case is made of tantalum with platinum details and measures 40.5 mm across. Its thickness is not consistent across the official published material: Louis Vuitton’s US product story gives 12.44 mm, while the Japan launch release dated 27 March 2025 gives 12.54 mm. Neither figure should be silently treated as a confirmed correction of the other.

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Specification Published detail
Case material Tantalum with platinum details; Louis Vuitton US product story and Japan release
Diameter 40.5 mm; Louis Vuitton US product story and Japan release
Thickness 12.44 mm; Louis Vuitton US product story. 12.54 mm; Louis Vuitton Japan release, 27 March 2025
Lug width 20 mm; Louis Vuitton Japan release, 27 March 2025
Case components 52; Louis Vuitton Japan release, 27 March 2025
Water resistance 3 bar / 30 m; Louis Vuitton Japan release, 27 March 2025

The Japan release explicitly says not to immerse the watch. Its 3-bar/30-m rating is therefore not a basis for recommending swimming or diving.

How the GMR 6 movement and second time zone work

The GMR 6 is a manually wound mechanical movement made, finished and assembled at the Voutilainen workshop. Louis Vuitton Japan lists 254 components, 32 jewels, a 30 mm diameter, 6 mm thickness and a 65-hour power reserve in its 27 March 2025 release. The movement uses two blued-steel direct-impulse escape wheels.

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It displays hours, minutes, seconds, power reserve and a second time zone at six o’clock, accompanied by a day/night indication. The 24-hour disc represents home time and completes one rotation in 24 hours. To adjust for local time, the wearer presses the crown to move the central hour hand; the Japan release describes this operating arrangement. The two displays make the watch useful for tracking home and local time without making the 24-hour indication a second conventional central hour hand.

What makes the dial distinctive?

The gold dial is built in four parts and combines hand guilloché with hand-painted detail. The guilloché is produced by the Brodbeck guillochage workshop using antique machines. Its pattern draws together Louis Vuitton’s Damier motif and a wave motif associated with Voutilainen.

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The hour circle uses a palette of 28 colors. Louis Vuitton’s US product story says painting it takes more than 32 hours; the Japan release specifies 32 hours of painting plus eight hours of firing. These are descriptions of the dial’s production work, not a general estimate for making the entire watch. The second-time-zone disc adds engraved and enamelled sun-and-moon imagery for its day/night indication.

What comes with each watch?

Each example is presented in an exclusive, hand-painted Louis Vuitton travel trunk made at the Asnières workshop. The Japan release says each trunk bears the number corresponding to its watch, tying the presentation to the five-piece edition rather than treating it as a generic box.

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Launch price and current-market limits

Hodinkee reported a launch price of €550,000 in its 2025 coverage. That is historical launch-price reporting, not a current asking price or an established resale valuation. The cited material does not establish present availability, listings or completed sale prices, so it cannot support a claim about what an LVKV-02 GMR 6 costs today. Hodinkee also reported two prototypes, but the makers’ cited pages specify the five-piece edition, not a prototype count.

Specifications at a glance

Item Specification
Edition Five individually numbered examples; Louis Vuitton and Voutilainen
Case Escale-inspired tantalum with platinum details
Diameter 40.5 mm
Thickness 12.44 mm on Louis Vuitton’s US page; 12.54 mm in the Japan release dated 27 March 2025
Movement Manual-wind GMR 6; made, finished and assembled at the Voutilainen workshop
Functions Hours, minutes, seconds, power reserve, second time zone and day/night display
Movement specifications 254 components, 32 jewels, 30 mm diameter, 6 mm thickness, 65-hour reserve; Louis Vuitton Japan, 27 March 2025
Water resistance 3 bar / 30 m; Japan release warns not to immerse
Presentation Individually numbered, hand-painted travel trunk made at Asnières

Sources: Louis Vuitton US product story; Voutilainen collaboration page; Louis Vuitton Japan launch release, 27 March 2025; Hodinkee’s 2025 launch report.

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